Study confirms the role of slow half blink in cats in communication
This has been anecdotaly know for some time (I even read somehting about
zoo workers doing this to make big cats feel more at ease). But now there's a study! https://www.sciencealert.com/you-can...king-real-slow Cats have a reputation for standoffishness, especially compared with dogs, but if you find your feline friend a little hard to bond with, maybe you're just not speaking their language. Never fear - new research has shown that it's not so difficult. You just need to smile at them more. Not the human way, by baring your teeth, but the cat way, by narrowing your eyes, and blinking slowly. By observing cat-human interactions, scientists were able to confirm that this expression makes cats - both familiar and strange - approach and be receptive to humans. "As someone who has both studied animal behaviour and is a cat owner, it's great to be able to show that cats and humans can communicate in this way," said psychologist Karen McComb of the University of Sussex in the UK. "It's something that many cat owners had already suspected, so it's exciting to have found evidence for it." |
Study confirms the role of slow half blink in cats incommunication
On 10/20/2020 10:48 PM, Tigger wrote:
This has been anecdotaly know for some time (I even read somehting about zoo workers doing this to make big cats feel more at ease). But now there's a study! https://www.sciencealert.com/you-can...king-real-slow Cats have a reputation for standoffishness, especially compared with dogs, but if you find your feline friend a little hard to bond with, maybe you're just not speaking their language. Never fear - new research has shown that it's not so difficult. You just need to smile at them more. Not the human way, by baring your teeth, but the cat way, by narrowing your eyes, and blinking slowly. By observing cat-human interactions, scientists were able to confirm that this expression makes cats - both familiar and strange - approach and be receptive to humans. "As someone who has both studied animal behaviour and is a cat owner, it's great to be able to show that cats and humans can communicate in this way," said psychologist Karen McComb of the University of Sussex in the UK. "It's something that many cat owners had already suspected, so it's exciting to have found evidence for it." I wonder how much that study cost? We could have told them for free. ;) Jill |
Study confirms the role of slow half blink in cats in communication
jmcquown wrote:
On 10/20/2020 10:48 PM, Tigger wrote: This has been anecdotaly know for some time (I even read somehting about zoo workers doing this to make big cats feel more at ease). But now there's a study! https://www.sciencealert.com/you-can...king-real-slow Cats have a reputation for standoffishness, especially compared with dogs, but if you find your feline friend a little hard to bond with, maybe you're just not speaking their language. Never fear - new research has shown that it's not so difficult. You just need to smile at them more. Not the human way, by baring your teeth, but the cat way, by narrowing your eyes, and blinking slowly. By observing cat-human interactions, scientists were able to confirm that this expression makes cats - both familiar and strange - approach and be receptive to humans. "As someone who has both studied animal behaviour and is a cat owner, it's great to be able to show that cats and humans can communicate in this way," said psychologist Karen McComb of the University of Sussex in the UK. "It's something that many cat owners had already suspected, so it's exciting to have found evidence for it." I wonder how much that study cost?Â* We could have told them for free. ;) Perhaps, but that would be classed as anecdotal evidence. It's nice, though, to see such is actually verifiable! It might have been in this list that I saw a mention of zoo workers saying this was also a trait in big cats... |
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